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Staff presents levy and enrollment math as trustees weigh deconsolidation
Summary
District staff outlined financial scenarios for deconsolidation, citing a roughly $3,000,000 levy baseline and estimating that including Elk City with Kooske could leave about $1,000,000 short in some configurations; staff also presented support-unit and staffing-breakdown hypotheticals.
District staff presented a line-by-line, high-level financial accounting to show how a split could affect levies and staffing. A presenter said the district runs about a $3,000,000 levy now and estimated Kooske’s portion of the shortfall could be on the order of $1,000,000 in some scenarios; staff described state funding as providing roughly 75–80 percent of education funding and characterized the local share as the remaining 20–25 percent.
The presenter and another staff member also showed hypothetical support-unit counts using 2023–24 data: a Clearwater Valley/Elk City configuration would generate about 21.43 support units (roughly 2.5 admin, ~23 teachers, ~1.5 pupil-service positions and ~8 classified staff), while a standalone Grangeville configuration would generate about 43.59 units. Staff stressed configurations of central offices, contracted services (food, curriculum) and shared roles would need negotiation if a split occurs.
